Jeff Findley ) wrote:

: "Scott Lowther" wrote in message
: ...
: Pete Lynn wrote:
: And it is hard
: to invoke a political or inspirational justification for Apollo 2.0,
:
:
:
: I dunno... it's worked well for a lot of people I know. And it hasn;t
: even really gotten into the public consciousness yet.

: Because the American public, in general, doesn't care about manned
: spaceflight. More people are likely aware about how high the oil industries
: profits were last quarter than are aware of how many people are on ISS at
: this moment.

Agree with the latter, but I think you give the people too much credit. We
are slaves to the pump and just keep giving and giving.

Hey, why don't we get the oil industry to fund space exploration? In a
perfect world...

Eric

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